Geneos

Workspace Settings

Overview

The Active Console Settings allows you to configure the settings of the current workspace and connections to Gateways.

It has seven settings components for you to configure:

General settings

This setting allows you to configure the basic user interface-related setup, persistence of your workspace, and viewpath of the State Tree.

Field Description
Title Name of the active Geneos Active Console file.
Font size

Sets the size of the text in Active Console components.

Default: Medium
Options: Small, Medium small, Medium, Medium large, Large, Extra Large, Extreme
Background

Sets the background colour of all dockable components.

The configuration changes only applies to existing dockable. For newly added dockable, you have to apply the background colour.
Transparency

The visibility settings define how opaque the various visual indicators are in Active Console components.

This allows you to make the selected indicators more prominent than others.

Options:

  • 100% — Makes the component completely invisible.
  • 0% — Makes the component completely opaque.

Drag the transparency bar according to your preference for the following options:

  • Knowledge Base
  • Snoozed Item
  • Inactive Indicator
  • Banner Variable
  • Inactive Children
  • User Assigned
  • Snoozed Peers
  • Snoozed Indicator
  • indicator.NoLicence
  • Error Indicator
  • OS Icon
Persistence

This allows you to configure the settings in your workspace.

  • Workspace is read only — Configures the workspace as read-only. The Active Console does not save back to the workspace between sessions.
  • Autoload last good workspace — Stops the workspace selection screen from being displayed on startup, instead the last workspace is automatically loaded.
  • Autosave period — Defines the period in minutes between automatic save of the current workspace configuration to a temp file. When a new workspace is created, the default value is set to 0 which means that the auto-save function is disabled.
  • Max autosave files — Limits the number of auto-save files.
  • Save on exit or workspace switch — This automatically save without prompt your workspace when the Active Console is closed or when a different workspace is loaded.
Viewpath An ordered, case-sensitive, and comma-separated list of the managed entity attributes that is use to group the Managed entities in the State Tree.
Order preference By default, the state tree is alphabetically ordered. This field allows you to override this order by entering the values you want to use.
Stay on top

Retains the Active Console on top of the other running application windows.
   

Connections settings

This setting allows you to define the Gateway connections' hostname and port, where Active Console can connect to when the workspace is loaded and applied. To know more about Gateway connections, see Gateways Dockable.

Field Description
Workspace logon

Defines the default logon to use against the configured Gateway that do not have an individual logon defined.

This can be configured to use the system login, and a normal or manual logon that requires you to enter the required user name in the Username field.
Connection files Defines Gateway connections from information on a file or source URL. For more information on how to define connection files, see Remote Gateway Files.
Connections

Allows you set up the Gateway connections in your workspace. In a normal setup, the Gateway's hostname and port are only required to connect to a valid Gateway.

If you enable Secure Connection, this has to be paired with the options from Logon method.

Default: Enabled
Listen port

The port where Active Console connects to. Leave the default port value as it is.

Default: 7040

Note: The Listen port field is temporarily disabled in Active Console for macOS.
   

It is possible to define several remote Gateway files and local Gateway connections that may map to the same Gateways. This is not an issue because Active Console does not duplicate actual Gateway connections.

Note: The contents of the local connection settings are used before the Gateways-defined in remote files. Therefore, if you have specific logon and enabled settings for a local Gatewaydefinition, then these take precedence over remote settings.

Database settings

This setting defines a list of database connections that can be used by other Active Console components, primarily the Active Charts and Event Tickers.

Field Description
Gateway Database Entries Automatically provides the Gateway information based on the setup made in the Connections settings.
Manual Database Entries Manually set the database connection.
   

Gateway Hub settings

Gateway Hub serves as the back-end storage and processing for data that is produced and consumed by ITRS products, such as Geneos and Capacity Planner. It can store and retrieve all data published from the Gateway to provide basic metric history.

This runs alongside the Active Console, Gateway, Netprobe, and Web Console.

The Gateway Hub icon appears at the dataview and Gateway levels to indicate if data is publishing to Gateway Hub.

Gateway dockable:

Metrics dataview:

System Tray settings

This setting defines the system tray behaviour of the workspace.

Field Description
Show in System Tray

If enabled, this causes the Active Console to minimise the task bar, as well as the system tray. This option only shows in Windows 7.

However, if you are using Windows Vista and XP, this option becomes Minimise to System tray. If enabled, the Active Console is minimise to the system tray rather than in the task bar.
Use Paths for Severity

By default, the colour of the system tray icon represents the global state (the highest severity of a connected Gateway).

You can override this and define a subset of data items that should drive the colour of this icon.

When using paths to define the colour of the system tray icon, the worst severity of a data item that matches one or more of the paths define the icon colour.
Path

This is only required if the Use Paths for Severity is enabled.

You must define the subset of data items that drive the colour of the system tray icon through a set of paths.

These paths can only go down to the dataview level and does not work in cells.
   

Note: In Ubuntu 18, the System Tray setting is not available in the Active Console workspace settings.

Tooltips settings

This setting allows you to create tooltip information for each data item type. This appears when you hover the data item and prompts a small dialog box.

These tooltip selections affect all dockables throughout the workspace. You cannot define the tooltips for separate instances of a dockable.

The content of tooltips are defined on a data item basis, such as:

  • Gateway
  • Directory
  • Probe
  • Entity
  • Sampler
  • Dataview
  • variable

To enable the tooltip for the specified data type, go to the Workspace settings > Tooltips.

  1. Select the data item type.
  2. Click the check icon to run its tooltip.
  3. Click Apply to implement changes.
  4. Click OK to close the screen.

Also, you can modify their order by using the up and down arrows.

Note: In a List View, a property only displays in the tooltip if it is also selected in the List View properties. Otherwise, the tooltip will not be displayed even if it is enabled in the Workspace > Tooltip settings.

Advanced settings

This setting allows you to define the behaviour of the docking, tab, and window framework, as well as some other advanced configurations options.

Field Description
Maximum rows for a metrics overview

Limits the maximum number of rows that can exist in a single metric dataview.

Default: 8,000

Dashboard refresh rate (seconds)

Determines how frequent the dashboards evaluate their modifiers.

Default: 5

Update history widgets after DB import

Determines if the graphs plotting of historical data will also plot the current data.

If set to False, this only displays the historical data.

Default: False
Event Ticker old events removal rate (seconds)

Determines how frequent the event ticker purges old events that must be removed due to a filter.

Default: 60
State tree leaf type

Determines what the leaf nodes are in the State Tree.

Default: Dataview

Other option: Sampler, ManagedEntity

Snooze stops error propagation

Displays the error indicators on the ancestors in the State Tree.

Setting this to True will not cause the error indicators to appear when data items in an error state are snoozed.

Default: False
Gateway Setup Editor as a separate process

If set to True, Gateway Setup Editor is launched on its own process. If so, the connection information is not available from Active Console. Also, if the GSE has a problem, it does not affect the Active Console.

Default: False
Use large error icons

Set the size of the error icons to twice as large.

Default: False
User readable path cache size

Maximum number of readable paths that the Active Console stores internally.

Default: 10,000
SSO Agent URL URL of the SSO Agent where the Active Console is connected to.
Default data source

Indicates the source if it is Database Logging or Gateway Hub.

Default: Database Logging

Other option: Gateway Hub
Frame floatable

Allows you to float the dockables and frames on their own windows.

Default: True
Frames auto hideable

Allows you to auto-hide the dockables and frames on their own windows.

Default: True
Frames hideable

Allows you to hide the dockables and frames on their own windows.

If set to false, the close action of all dockables is set to Not Closable and is not changeable.

Default: True
Frames rearrangeable

Allows you to move dockables and frames within the docking framework.

Default: True
Resizable

Allows you to resize the width and height of the dockables and frames.

Default: True
Continuous layout

If set to True, the dockable repositions immediately when you resize it.

If set to False, a line preview appears where the new dockable is going to position. For machines that have lower specifications, please set this to False.

Default: False
Easy tab docking

Allows you to create modal frames by dragging and dropping the dockables into the centre of other dockables.

Default: True
Title bar dragging all tabs

By default, when you dock one frame with another to create a modal frame, only the selected and visible frame is docked with the target frame.

If set to True, then all frames within the frame you drag through Title bar are merged with the target frame.

Default: False
Show frame gripper

Hides or shows the frame gripper.

Default: True
Show frame title bar

Hides or shows the title bar in each dockable.

If set to False, all docking framework functionalities are inaccessible.

Default: True
Side bar rollover

If set to True and the frame is auto-hide, then this makes the hidden frame tab appears when you hover it.

If set to False, click the hidden tabs to make them appear.

Default: False
Allow nested floating windows

If set to True, the docking behaviour that happens in the main application window can also occur in undocked or floating windows.

Default: True
Dragging mode

Determines how the grey frame shows where a floating frame is end up when dragged.

  • Full — Shows the full outline view of the dockable when you drag it from one location to another.
  • Partial — Shows the partial outline view of the dockable, including the preview of the dockable's tab location.
  • Mix — Use the behaviour of both full and partial outline modes.

Default: Full outline mode
Use normal frames for undocked components

If set to True, components appear in conventional window frames that allows you to resize, maximise, and minimise them.

If set to False, window frames appear as docking framework frames that can only be resized.

Tabs are generally coloured with the worst severity of all the items these contain.

Default: True
Embed tabs when detaching

When a tab is detached, this allows you to display the tab on a detached window.

Default: True
Use dialog when detaching

Allows the detached tabs to be displayed in dialog windows, rather than in normal windows.

Dialog windows are minimised with the main application window. These do not have the minimise and maximise controls, but have presence in the OS task bar.

Default: False
Show close button on tabs

Displays the close button icon on the right side of each tab.

This is only applicable if the Show tab close button is set to True.

Default: True
Show tab close button

Displays the close button icon on the right side of each metrics dataview tab.

Default: True
Show gripper on tabs

Displays the gripper indicator on the tabs.

Default: False
Bold active tabs

Applies the bold font format to the current selected tab to make it stand out from the other non-selected tabs.

Default: True
Tab reside mode

Determines how the tab bars with multiple tabs are displayed.

  • Default
  • Fit — fits all the tabs into the available tab area. The tabs get smaller and occluded by other tabs as the space becomes inadequate for the tabs, but all the tabs will be visible.
  • Fixed — fixes the width of all the tabs. If their titles are longer than their width, then it crops the title.
  • None — tabs get wider to display their title. If the tab area is too small to display all the tabs, then arrows appear to scroll over the tabs.

Default: Default
Output

Displays the Output windows .

Default: In tab

Other option: In frame
Show enhanced tooltips

Displays tooltips for data items.

Default: True
Use styled output in a single stream

Any commands triggered from Active Console that are in text output will be formatted.

Default: True
Look and feel

Sets the look and feel of the docking framework.

Default: Xerto

Other option: Eclipse, Eclipse3x, Office2003, VSnet